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Reposting my comment from the other post:

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it's only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve... Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can't patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think... nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true...

Wait, isn't it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself... their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it's reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve's... design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input's initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it's only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve... Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can't patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think... nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true...

Wait, isn't it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself... their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it's reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve's... design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input's initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

If you shit in the same room you brush your teeth, you should probably rinse the poop particles off your toothbrush.

I havent played 3 personally, but I've heard the story is kinda botched because its so inconsistent, and the pacing is fucked.

With 1 and 2 you had the anime-bullshit layered between the disney-bullshit.

Apparently with 3, it goes:

anime-bullshit > (disney-bullshit * worlds) > heavy anime-bullshit with loads of exposition.

Curious George was transgender?

This is such a terrible take.

Of course AAA and AA mean something in the gaming industry! I'm hardly going to power my controller with a fucking 9V am I?

This is Art

Its simply a matter of harm mitigation.

It simply isnt fair to the rest of society to place people who actively seek harm onto others, back on the street.

I think this is less of a case of 'dont keep them in prison for the rest of their lives' and more of a 'we should improve prison conditions' type of argument.

Sure, but I wouldn't exactly categorize speeding as an 'evil' act - just reckless.

But then there are malicious crimes. These kinds of crimes are driven by motivations which regularly transcend punishment.

I remember listening to an episode of hardcore history about capital punishment, it detailed public executions throughout the ages, and the takeaway is this:

You could literally publicly rip people limb from limb with horses and rope, people are still going to steal, assault, and rape.

If seeing someone getting skinned alive isn't enough of a deterrent, I don't know why prison would be.

Installing Arch 'the proper way' is a pilgrimage all Linux users should take. After that, they can fly with EndeavourOS at their convenience.

Lol OP didn't get the good ending.